Effects of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on Selected Soil Physical and Chemical Properties in Shenkolla Watershed, South Central Ethiopia

Table 2

Mean values of selected physical properties of soils as affected by different land uses.

Land use	Particle size distribution (%)
	Sand	Silt	Clay	Si/Cl	Textural class	BD (g/cm^3)	TP (%)
Forest	34^d	41b^c	26^a	1.57^c	Clay loam	1.21^d	0.53^a
Grazing land	36b^c	45^a	19^c	2.42^b	Clay loam	1.5^b	0.44^b
Cultivated outfields	46^a	4 3^ab	11^d	3.9^a	Sandy loam	1.62^a	0.32^d
Homestead	36^b	41^bc	23^a	1.8^c	Clay loam	1.41^c	0.43^c
Mean	38.01	42.37	19.71	2.42		1.45	0.43
SE (±)	0.39	0.54	0.47	0.28		0.05	0.01
F	69.24	4.69	61.13	46.14		24.86	16.09
Sig

For each column, means having common letters are not significantly different at ; BD = bulk density, TP = total porosity, and SE = standard error of the mean; and .